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To promote the use of solar energy in electricity generation, Taiwan’s government has recently enacted the Million Solar Roofs policy to increase photovoltaic (PV) energy generation in small-scale systems, such as those for residential and commercial buildings.

After the new policy was introduced, ABB in Taiwan concluded an agreement with Sunny Rich, a local system integrator. The deal includes ABB string inverters, PVS300, with a total capacity of 1 MW for several PV systems in Taiwan. The first delivery set included 27 ABB string inverters, ranging from 3.3 to 8 kW in size. The first inverters were installed in the southern part of Taiwan in the middle of December 2011 and the rest will be delivered in 2012. More orders are expected to follow.

The ABB string inverter is available in sizes from 3.3 to 8 kW, with target solar installations including residential as well as small and medium-sized commercial and industrial buildings

According to the targets set by the policy, the expected 420 megawatt (MW) of PV energy generating capacity by the end of 2015 will be increased to 1,020 MW by 2020. This amount of capacity would be the equivalent to solar modules being installed on 340,000 roofs. To support this target, a feed-in-tariff (FIT) has been set at the highest rate for PV energy generation in systems between 1 to 10 kilowatts (kW) in size.